| 2012 - present | Assistant Professor in Psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen |
| 2008 - present | Research Scientist at the Center for the Decision Sciences, Columbia University |
| Decision Science Fellow at Columbia University's Brain Imaging Center | |
| 2010 - 2012 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, Developmental Psychology |
| 2005 - 2008 | Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Dr. E. U. Weber, Department of Psychology and the |
| Center for Decision Sciences, Columbia University | |
| 2004/2006 | University of Zurich, Switzerland, PhD (Dr. phil.) |
| Cognitive and Developmental Psychology | |
| Thesis: Information integration in risky decision making. Developmental, cognitive, and | |
| motivational aspects Cum Laude (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wilkening) | |
| 2000 - 2005 | Research Fellow and Therapist |
| Outpatient clinic for adolescence-related and substance-related disorders | |
| Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 1999 - 2005 | Research and Teaching Fellow ("Assistent"), Department of Psychology, Cognitive and |
| Developmental Psychology, University of Zurich | |
| 1999 | University of Zurich, Switzerland, M.A. (lic. phil.) |
| Psychology, Psychopathology, and Biology | |
| Thesis: Development of a computer-based questionnaire for the assessment of motivational variables (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Norbert Bischof) | |
| 2011 - 2012 | R21 DA031975-01 Substance Abuse Disorders and Decision Making: A Pilot Imaging Study of Parents and Children; Consultant (PI Christina Hoven) (approx. USD 200,000) |
| 2011 | SRNDNA (Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging) Methods Workshop: Multilevel Modeling (USD 480) |
| 2011 | Fellowship The Neuroscience of Risky Decision Making, Third Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference, Cornell University (USD 750) |
| 2010 - 2012 | Klarman Family Foundation Award in Eating Disorders Research Delayed Gratification: A biobehavioral characteristic of Anorexia Nervosa; Consultant (PI Joanna Steinglass) (approx. USD 400,000) |
| 2009 – 2012 | NSF SES – 0922743 Development of Dynamic Risky Decision Making: Behavioral Phenomena and Neural Underpinnings; Co-Investigator; with E. U. Weber and BJ Casey (approx. USD 250,000) |
| 2007 – 2010 | Individual Support for Advanced Researchers: Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant No. PA001 – 115327; approx. USD 135,000) |
| 2007 – 2009 | NSF SES – 0720932 Affective and Deliberative Risky Decision Making in Children, Adolescents, and Adults; Co-PI; with E. U. Weber and BJ Casey (approx. USD 89,000) |
| 2007 | Invited Guest Researcher, 'DICE' Lab (Bergen Laboratory for the Study of Decision, Intuition, Consciousness, and Emotion), University of Bergen, Norway (approx. USD 3,000) |
| 2007 | Travel Award for Young Researchers, Workshop Cognition and Emotion in Economic Decision Making, Rovereto, Italy (approx. USD 270) |
| 2005 – 2007 | Individual Support for Prospective Researchers: Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant No. PBZH1 – 110268; approx. USD 68,000) |